What Gabriele spoke about.

17 Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

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Madam President, What a signal! To come to Parliament, to the Chamber of the Heart of European Democracy, and not to stay in the debate, to hear what the Members have to say, I think it is a great pity, I would like to express here for this House. After Enrico Letta's report on the future of the single market, this report is the second report to provide a basis for the further development of Europ…

25 Apr

2024

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Interinstitutional Body for Ethical Standards (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to thank Katarina Barley, Daniel Freund and colleague Salvatore De Meo for their work. At the end of the day, seven institutions have come together to ensure greater transparency and to ensure that citizens' trust can grow again, as we know: Transparency, also mechanisms of control, are the breeding ground to ensure th…

24 Apr

2024

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La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Nicolas Schmit, ladies and gentlemen! With La Hulpe we have raised another pearl on the chain of social Europe, to Gothenburg, to Porto La Hulpe. More will follow in the future. And the message from La Hulpe is: Whatever some neoliberals now dream that the time of social Europe is over, so much has been achieved. I have to tell you, this statement from La Hulpe says: We'…

24 Apr

2024

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Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management (A9-0163/2024 - Gabriele Bischoff) (vote)

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Madam President, We are now voting on an amendment to the Rules of Procedure to introduce mandatory courses to prevent conflict and harassment in the workplace. The Bureau of the European Parliament had already decided this in July 2023 and mandated us to present a corresponding amendment to the Rules of Procedure in the AFCO Committee. Because the European Parliament is not only a co-legislator, …

23 Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, My previous speakers have already described the importance of this reform of economic governance. But, like Margarida Marques, they have also pointed out that the key issue will also be the scope for investment and, in particular, social investment. And my part in these negotiations was that the old promise already mad…

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Mr President, Commissioner! First of all, I would like to thank all the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs, which have been years of hard work here. And it is perhaps one of the most important decisions we will make in this legislature – and it is certainly one of the hardest for many. But in fact, European citizens are looking at us right now and see if, after years of blockades and negotiations,…

13 Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

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Mr President, dear Commission, Minister Lahbib! Many citizens feel at the moment that we in the EU are like a ship on the high seas – waves are there, storms are approaching, and we must be prepared to really set the political framework for this, so that we can get through these unsettling times well here. And it is therefore good that we have this report, even before we start a major reform. Comm…

13 Mar

2024

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Creation of a European initiative for an annual designation of European capitals for children (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Šuica! It is a great honour for me that we are launching this European Parliament resolution today, a resolution that demands that we actually launch a European children's capital and that we have the courage to put children, their well-being, their rights, their opportunities and their participation at the centre – not as appendages, not by the way. In October, we …

12 Mar

2024

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A single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for third-country workers legally residing in a Member State (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Do good and talk about it: I think it's good that we've heard from various political groups that we've done really well to get a single permit on the way, because wherever I go in my hometown, people and businesses are complaining about a shortage of skilled workers. We need a lot of education and training, but we know that alone is not enough. We need workers from t…

28 Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

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Mr President! Yes, this report has a clear message: Enlargement can only be achieved through reforms. This takes up the spirit that I experienced a few months ago at the Federal Foreign Office, with many foreign ministers from the enlargement countries who said: If we can make such huge reforms to comply with the acquis in order to implement everything, then the EU will probably be able to do its …

28 Feb

2024

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Preventing work-related deaths following the Florence tragedy (debate)

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Mr President! I am very grateful to my colleague Covassi for putting this on the agenda. In the last four months, we have lost 30 people who died in accidents at work on construction sites in Europe. We know that they are always mobile workers and that the subcontractor chains are the problem because they offer truly inhumane working conditions. We know all this and I am very happy that the Commis…

6 Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, Indeed, all the responsible parties here have highlighted the importance of launching the Ukraine support package. And Mr Michel stressed the determination, unity and leadership of Europe. But that remains a minute's success if we don't make sure that such veto options, as they were still played in the December Council, don't become everyday life. There is a good saying that says:…

17 Jan

2024

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Addressing urgent skills shortages and finding the right talents to boost job creation (European Year of Skills) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In Germany we have the fable of the shepherd boy, who repeatedly calls out because he has to look after sheep: The wolf is coming! No wolf there, people won't listen to him at some point. Then the wolf comes and no one helps him. That's a bit of the debate about the shortage of skilled workers. We've known this for a long time. We have always ha…

17 Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President, Madam Minister, dear Commission! We have it in our hands whether we want to allow it to continue – that such blackmail manoeuvres really end and that they are no longer possible at all in the future. And it has already been said here several times that it was a dark hour of European politics that Orbán was successful with his blackmail maneuver. This only encourages others to do the …

16 Jan

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Belgian Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister De Croo, Vice-President! We have heard that Belgium has an excellent reputation for forging compromises in difficult negotiations – a lot of praise, but of course also a huge responsibility. Once again, I would like to mention three dossiers that are particularly important here: One is really the reform of the Economic governance. We cannot afford to go back to aust…

15 Jan

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President! Today there are quite a few colleagues here who have thought about how it can be that we, who stand for good work and good working conditions all over Europe, have such a gap in our regulations that assistants, if their MEPs die, have to vacate their office within three days, that they no longer have access to their e-mails, that there is no transitional arrangement. I don't know wha…

15 Jan

2024

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Revision of the European Labour Authority mandate (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The ELA, as many have underlined, was really important in order to create the confidence that we really want fair mobility and that we can achieve it and that we also have cross-border institutions for it. I would really like to thank the two rapporteurs for this proposal, for this document. I would like to underline two points, including Mr Kós…

13 Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President, Secretary of State! We were all in a tremendous shock and shocked a year ago – a shock that shook this house. As a S&D Group, we immediately actively and ambitiously campaigned for far-reaching reforms to strengthen transparency and integrity. Let me give you a few examples of how, together in this House, we have changed our own Rules of Procedure, which I am responsi…

13 Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen! Please re-imagine that you are 20 years old, full of energy, you want to try yourself out, you want to experience yourself and contribute to society. And for us this is a good memory, for many a hope, but for quite, very, very many in a really far distance. And not because they do not want to get involved, but because they ha…

12 Dec

2023

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Parliament’s call for the right to disconnect - three years on (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, ladies and gentlemen! I think you are experiencing something special right now – that pressure is being put on the Commission from all sides except the far right to say: But that has to be done quickly, we have waited three years. And I think when we think about the situation we're in, we realize that we're not in a bad situation at all. We have the work of the s…

21 Nov

2023

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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President! I think it was an important debate that we have had here, as the end of a long process where compromises were really being fought for, because between six political groups – Mr Saryusz-Wolski has just come in – and in the end there were still five; It's a pretty exhausting process. But that is the core of democracy, that we are struggling for compromises. And that will continue if we…

21 Nov

2023

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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Secretary of State! I am also pleased that the Commission has such a high level of representation here. In fact, as Sven Simon has said, tomorrow we are facing a next step that we are taking. In the party I come from, there has been a slogan for mobilization for over 150 years, and it says: It never fights badly for freedom and justice. And what we want to do is take a first step …

8 Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. We in the S&D Group have also taken a close look at the conclusions and analysed what evidence we find in the Council's position on the important negotiations on the migration package. And if you look at the two short sentences – not very meaningful – then you know how important it is for us to exchange more information. I would have liked to talk to Mr. Mich…

8 Nov

2023

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Urgent need for immediate measures against the rise of antisemitism (statement by the President)

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Madam President, Thank you for putting anti-Semitism on the agenda here, here after the last few weeks. I am a bit shocked – I say this quite clearly – that here in this House of Democracy we are talking about anti-Semitism after 7 October and hardly anyone is here in the room. I think there are many opportunities where you have other things, but I find that really shocking because we know very we…

18 Oct

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Šefčovič, distinguished representative of the Council, ladies and gentlemen! I have to admit that, after the previous debate, I find it a bit difficult to simply move on to the discussions with EUCO, because we all know and feel that after this barbaric attack by Hamas, with its consequences, the world has become a different one – not only in the Middle East, but also …